1Git v2.4.7 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Fixes since v2.4.6 5------------------ 6 7 * A minor regression to "git fsck" in v2.2 era was fixed; it 8 complained about a body-less tag object when it lacked a 9 separator empty line after its header to separate it with a 10 non-existent body. 11 12 * We used to ask libCURL to use the most secure authentication method 13 available when talking to an HTTP proxy only when we were told to 14 talk to one via configuration variables. We now ask libCURL to 15 always use the most secure authentication method, because the user 16 can tell libCURL to use an HTTP proxy via an environment variable 17 without using configuration variables. 18 19 * When you say "!<ENTER>" while running say "git log", you'd confuse 20 yourself in the resulting shell, that may look as if you took 21 control back to the original shell you spawned "git log" from but 22 that isn't what is happening. To that new shell, we leaked 23 GIT_PAGER_IN_USE environment variable that was meant as a local 24 communication between the original "Git" and subprocesses that was 25 spawned by it after we launched the pager, which caused many 26 "interesting" things to happen, e.g. "git diff | cat" still paints 27 its output in color by default. 28 29 Stop leaking that environment variable to the pager's half of the 30 fork; we only need it on "Git" side when we spawn the pager. 31 32 * Avoid possible ssize_t to int truncation. 33 34 * "git config" failed to update the configuration file when the 35 underlying filesystem is incapable of renaming a file that is still 36 open. 37 38 * A minor bugfix when pack bitmap is used with "rev-list --count". 39 40 * An ancient test framework enhancement to allow color was not 41 entirely correct; this makes it work even when tput needs to read 42 from the ~/.terminfo under the user's real HOME directory. 43 44 * Fix a small bug in our use of umask() return value. 45 46 * "git rebase" did not exit with failure when format-patch it invoked 47 failed for whatever reason. 48 49 * Disable "have we lost a race with competing repack?" check while 50 receiving a huge object transfer that runs index-pack. 51 52Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code 53clean-ups.